The rumors are past. Now, we're actually seeing open-wheelers run taxicabs this weekend, which means lots o' stories about open-wheelers running taxicabs.
Sam Hornish Jr. was relegated to the back of the garage and DNQed (again) at Talladega, but Kyle Petty is at least being nice to him. Read the second item in Brent James' notebook in the St. Pete Times. Sam was 13th fastest, though, and still didn't qualify. (Meanwhile, A.J. Allmendinger DNQed despite being ninth-quick).
The St. Pete Times catches up with Dario in Talladega.
NASCARworld is funny at times -- a fan base full of the culture of the American south meets a desire to be the biggest thing going in the world. So, sometimes, we have screw-ups, like an ARCA official leaning into Dario's car and asking "You speak English?" (Uh, what language do you think they speak in Scotland? ... or, for that matter, Dario's hometown of Nashville).
Anyway, JPM seems happy that Dario stayed a year. And so is Dario. "(Montoya) said, 'Hey man, I bet you're glad I came over last year. I said, 'Absolutely, I got an Indy 500.' Everything happens for a reason, I guess."
Dario then finished 17th in the Talladega race.
Says Dario about stock-car racing: "It's a bizarre feeling just to go and ram someone there but a couple of guys were really helping me. In the last two stints I was having it flat-footed the whole way, no brake and nothing. Just trying to get momentum. Just a great learning experience."
The Indianapolis Star also has a piece on Dario.
They love our guys when they come over, but they hate them when they come over
There was a story a few weeks ago about NASCAR guys blaming the open-wheel people for "dirty driving" and blocking. Tony Stewart gets in on the game.
"I think it’s a little more physical of a sport as far as we can get into each other and it doesn’t necessarily crash somebody like it does in the open-wheel cars. In open-wheel racing, they’re really bad about chopping each other off and coming across each other’s noses and things like that."
Morris News Service catches up with former IndyCar driver Jacques Villeneuve, who is supposedly not qualified to run at Talladega if you listen to the taxicab conventional wisdom, but somehow the underqualified F1 and Indy 500 champ put his cab sixth on the grid.
Says JV: "Apparently, no matter what you're driving, nobody likes the new boy. Any time anybody got into F1, we didn't like it, and we made their life hard. So that's a little bit natural."
Meanwhile, the Peoria Journal-Star notes the drivers' whining about JV's entrance into the Cup world this weekend. I wonder if Jacques' name were Jack Villone from Mobile, if they'd be complaining this loudly.
Says Jeff Gordon: "But I don't care if you are Michael Schumacher, Jacques Villeneuve, Dario Franchitti or the greatest driver on the planet - you should not be running your first race this weekend." (Uh, this isn't Jacques' first race, nor is it even his first stock-car experience).
Bruce Martin says the NASCAR people are calling JV a carpetbagger. Meanwhile, Carl Edwards inserts some sanity at the end of this IndyStar story.
Says Edwards: "Somehow we manage to wreck cars without those guys. The bottom line is, we all have to start somewhere. And, like I said, we've wrecked each other without Jacques Villeneuve in this race plenty of times."
Anyway, more whining about the guy who is starting in the sixth position of today's race, from the Mobile Register
Big picture stories
Welcome to NASCAR-land conventional wisdom: The St. Pete Times' Brent James says the IRL should just give up and become a NASCAR undercard series. I wonder what would've happened 40 years ago if the Frances had just given up and folded NASCAR into USAC and became its' stock-car division?
The Concord (NH) Monitor notes the drivers heading south, but also more importantly, it notes a possible buyer for New Hampshire International Speedway, a former IRL (and current taxicab) track. Jerry Carroll of Kentucky Speedway was reportedly in the running, but he's not listed as the possible buyer.
This Winston-Salem News-Journal column spends much of its time calling for the Busch/Nationwide Series to become an international version TransAm Part II, but it does have an interesting note at the bottom. A NASCAR exec says: "You see IRL guys coming over, but what we're really looking at is developing some young talent in (Canada and Mexico)."
Actual IRL news
Rumors have abounded that Newman-Haas-Lanigan has bought Dallaras and is headed to the IRL, but the NHL CC team denies them.
And, finally
Things aren't all hunky-dory in the NASCAR world, as the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser points out.
Among the pearls of wisdom:
"A Canadian in NASCAR. What is the world coming to? That's like a small step away from a Frenchman. I mean, you might as well be putting Osama in a car out there." (OK, that part was a joke on the writer's behalf, but he's not far off of the conventional wisdom).
"The guys in the garage in the old NASCAR were like the shade-tree guy down the block who could get 15 more horsepower out of a lawnmower. The guys behind the wheel were like the guys you could find any Friday or Saturday night at a dozen different dirt tracks. They all talked like the folks around here. They looked like the folks around here. We knew these guys. ... People in the South could relate to all of it. And on the backs of these fans, the France family built an empire. But ever so slowly over the last several years, they've been moving the sport as far away from those loyal fans as they can get. Mark my words: It's going to backfire."
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WELCOME TO THE ATLANTIC CITY TAXICAB : BUSINESS 101
Monopoly Power Revenue Enhancement program
1. Confiscates driver's earnings through high cab rentals protected by lack of free-market.
2. Suppresses service to the people. Why serve the citizenry when the only objective is to maximize certificate owners income on a limited number of cabs?
3. Collects all cash from drivers thus possibly evading taxes, plus no opportunity to collect sales tax since monopolies want no records.
4. Authorized agents for the license holders force drivers to buy cars charging upwards of $6000 for them and they don’t even pass inspection, for renewals by threatening to give there license to others in waiting .
This leads to recruiting only low caliber, often foreign drivers, who have little option or ability and no chance to learn. The turnover rate often exceeds 300% per year.
Rental rate is set too high for long survival and development. The monopolies have no mechanism or desire for driver development since the only objective is to confiscate their earnings.
The rental rate is set too high for long survival; accumulating wealth or paying taxes is out of the question.
Any limit or certificate except on knowledge is monopoly power and thus anti-free-market.
The driver is left with not enough income to pay his taxes or participate in this society. They pay all cash. New York City, the two largest fleet operators, have between 4 and 5 million dollars come across their desk each week. — evade taxes?
This is a municipally sponsored criminal conspiracy.
Atlantic city has a cap on only 250 taxicab licenses, they will not issue anymore on request.
So called market value at a so called supply in demand scale was around
$40,000.00 in 1996. Now in 2007 it has grown to around $185,000.00 . for one cab license!!
But visitor business is down and gas is higher then ever before and even casino revenues are claiming the worst loses ever.
Rental rates for:
Atalntic City Taxicab License renewal per year to city $150.00 a year
License Holder collects /varies on deal w/wo insurance etc. $15,000.00/ $33,000.00
ATLANTIC CITY cab rental / lic and insurance only . the car is separate and you must provide your own and maintenance it. $500.00 A WEEK/ $325.00 shift
Since the monopolies are self-funded, and insurance coverage is dismally low, the incentive is to keep the limit on licenses abysmally low. More cabs would mean higher risk of loss and accident rates. The victim is the public. This depresses service to the citizenry and visitors.
The monopolies are a cruel scam played on the city and especially the poor. The opposite of this is open entry infrastructure financing and high standards for the drivers or owner-operators and the vehicle. Today America is a country of monopolies formed into a cartel in Kensington , MD (ITLA). They are closed entry with no standards. The certificate (PCANS) become de facto property in violation of the constitution's ninth (9) and fourteenth (14) amendments. They operate in a black market world of monopoly power. They are municipally sponsored criminal conspiracies.
The objective of the certificate owner is to get the least qualified driver (operator) behind the wheel and thus confiscate his/her earnings. Monopolies do three things: confiscate the worker's earnings, reduce service to the people and evade taxes. The taxicab industry in atlantic city and throughout many other cities in America does all these. It is outside of the moral, social and economic life of the nation.
Certificates of Public Conveyance and Necessity: An artifact of a century ago based on the progressive's aversion to the raw capitalism of the 19th century. Now, like other such adventures gone sour, perverts original intention and creates monopolies where a free-market should reign. The certificates have become monopoly property and the business opportunities mere chattel to the certificate owners.
International Taxicab and Livermen's Association (ITLA): The cartel of nationwide monopoly interests by jurisdiction. Their members own the certificates of public conveyance and necessity by municipality. Their number is limited and does not respond to market forces. These, like all monopolies, depress service to the people, confiscate the driver's earnings through higher than free-market rentals to the driver and evade taxes. The American taxi system is outside the social, moral and economic life of the U.S.
Vicious Cycle: The socio-economic description of events that feed on each other in a downward cycle to collapse. The cab customer gets poor service, the cab driver makes less money, good cab drivers leave, and the customer gets poor service, less pay, less drivers, less customers, until collapse.
The taxi system in America & atlantic city’s geopolitical areas are a national disgrace. No decent and affordable service can be provided, no owner/operator opportunities provided, no taxes paid, no community involvement, and no responsibility. This is totally outside of the social, moral, economic, constitutional and environmental framework of our society. The taxicab industry is underdeveloped throughout the United States. Lack of standards has frozen it in the mold created more than a century ago. Bernard Fall in his writings on the war in Viet Nam noted that the French controlled only a few major urban areas in the country. They did not control municipal governments throughout much of the country, did not collect taxes and did not run the schools. Between municipalities in America and their taxicab industries there is a similar relationship.
How many unqualified taxicab drivers are out there? How many can read and write at a normal business level? How many licenses that are out there were issued without passing a test. How many drivers are actually insured? Can the police tell at a traffic stop if the cab and driver are insured?
Some of these drivers are now charging people the most outrageous prices ever heard. For example: A decent driver with good ethics and a decent dispatch provider will charge $15.00 to $20.00 dollars to a customer. But another driver with no training or guidance from a decent dispatch provider will charge $30.00 to $60.00 dollars. You can find the good drivers if you look. But there is few and most have had to move into limousine licensed vehicles such as towncars and vans to provide decent and affordable rates to there clients and visitors alike that they have built up over the years. These owner operators are real good guys that have families to support and have grown up here and to run there businesses with morals and fairness. Because the taxicab license business in atlantic city has been claimed by these monopoly Mongols the good guys have to now struggle to provide dependable service for the citizens and teach good ethics policies to any people they can recruit to help them.
There seems to be Timely events dictating the demise of the good drivers,some cab owners and now limo owner operators, such as election times. Election years seem to be the time that municipal crack downs are perpetrated against the higher caliber drivers. Psychological terror is inflicted upon good drivers and owner operators that have built businesses over the years. Guys that have been driven down time and time again by the tactics of so called code enforcement officials by means of stalking and harassing them with threats of violations. Some frivolous half baked rules that are questionable and twisted by words that don’t even exist in the ordinances. Good men with character, morals a decent business sense for the public and overall general concern for there businesses and families shouldn’t have to endure such atrocities that are indeed evidence of monopoly, dirty politics and corruption.
But do not worry ! We are here and we are legally licensed and insured to carry you everywhere you want to go! We will bring our towncars, our vans our limousines and what few decent taxicabs and drivers we have left to service you. Just call us ! You know who we are!
We will not give up our right to service you in a decent and most affordable way that we can!
We will not give in to the monopoly power enhancement program of license holders that are backed by yellow cab and city halls municipal conspiracy !
This is the taxicab and limousine world of atlantic city. These are the facts.
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